Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour: v. 8 (Regional Policy & Development S.) - Softcover

Martin, Ron; Etc.; Sunley, Peter; Wills, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853022551 ISBN 13: 9781853022555

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

Over the last 15 years, the substantial restructuring of western economies has confronted trade unions with the most intense changes and challenges they have had to face for more than half a century: in many countries union membership has fallen sharply and the power of the trade unions has been considerably weakened. Drawing on the data from a large scale ESRC-funded research project, the authors make a comprehensive analysis of the regional and local dimensions of trade union decline and industrial relations changes of the past 15 years, relating their findings to wider conceptual and empirical issues. Linking regional structure, trends in trade unionism and industrial relations to the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets, this book is an important synthesis of economic geography and labour relations work.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Martin is Director of the Graduate School of Geography and a lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853022551
• ISBN 13: 9781853022555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300